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James "Jimmy" Earl Carter
Number of words: 273 - Number of pages: 1.... "stationed" not too long after that
back in Plains. During this time he became extremely interested and
involved with his community.
He eventually, in 1971 he became the 76th governor of Georgia.
While in office, his fellow governors selected him to serve as a chairman
of the Southern Regional Education Board, the Appalachian Regional
Commission, the Coastal Plains Regional Action Planning Commission, and the
Southern Growth Policies Board.
In 1973 he became the Democratic National Committee campaign
chairman for the 1974 congressional elections. He anounced his candidacy .....
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John Wayne
Number of words: 763 - Number of pages: 3.... Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw
Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in
the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from
military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the
film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate
side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers
(1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan
(1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes to fill.
The movies that he made at the end of the decade
were the ones that established him as an actor of merit.
Howard Hawks emphasi .....
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Fritz Haber
Number of words: 1459 - Number of pages: 6.... He also authored several books arising from his research.
During the first decade of the twentieth century, the world-wide demand for nitrogen based fertilizers exceeded the existing supply. The largest source of the chemicals necessary for fertilizer production was found in a huge guano deposit (essentially sea bird droppings) that was 220 miles in length and five feet thick, located along the coast of Chile.
Scientists had long desired to solve the problem of the world's dependence on this fast disappearing natural source of ammonia and nitrogenous compounds. It was Haber, along with Carl .....
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William James
Number of words: 747 - Number of pages: 3.... Louis Agassiz and also studied psychology in Germany. During this time, William retired due to illness but that didn’t stop his from excelling in the field. Three years later, in 1872, at the age of thirty, William become an instructor in physiology at Harvard University. In 1875, William started teaching Psychology at Harvard and after 1880 he was teaching both classes.
He taught at Harvard for thirty-five years, during which time; he wrote his first (and only) book; had his essays and lectures published in three different books: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Pop .....
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Thomas Jefferson: A Product Of His Times Or A Hypocrite?
Number of words: 676 - Number of pages: 3.... Americans had higher order of intelligence and imagination than he found in Afro-Americans. The Native Americans seemed to Jefferson to be happier than the oppressed and degraded peasantry of Europe.
Jefferson compared the studies of Native American languages and came to a conclusion that there were twenty basic languages and that the Native Americans had lived in the New World for a far longer period than anyone had thought.
The native Americans had proved that strong government was not necessary to the happiness of mankind. Jefferson declared that the Native Americans had “made war o .....
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The Life Of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of words: 2074 - Number of pages: 8.... Gauss's extraordinary achievement which caused this impression
occurred when he demonstrated his ability to sum the integers from 1 to 100
by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing 101.
In 1788, Gauss began his education at the Gymnasium with the help of
Buttner and Bartels, where he distinguished himself in the ancient
languages of High German and Latin and mathematics. At the age of 14 Gauss
was presented to the duke of Brunswick - Wolfenbuttel, at court where he
was permitted to exhibit his computing skill. His abilities impressed the
duke so much that .....
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Jeffrey Dahmer
Number of words: 2033 - Number of pages: 8.... is spinning in the void, swirling in the maelstrom, lost, lost, lost."
Lionel seems to be fairly straightforward in recognising the negative influences in Jeff's life. No family is perfect. Jeff's mother had various physical ailments and appeared to be high strung, coming from a background in which her father's alcoholism deeply affected her life.
Lionel, a chemist who went on to get his Ph.D., stayed at work more often than he should to avoid
Turmoil on the home front. Eventually, the marriage dissolved in divorce when Jeff was eighteen.
However, none of this commonplace do .....
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Number of words: 1551 - Number of pages: 6.... and was unable to find a decent job.
Desperate for employment, he settled for a job as an elevator operator in the
Callahan Building in Dayton.
The major accomplishments of Paul Laurence Dunbar's life during 1872 to
1938 labeled him as an American poet. Dunbar had two poetic identities. He was
first a Victorian poet writing in a comparatively formal style of literary
English. Dunbar's other identity was that of the dialect poet, writing lighter,
usually humorous or sentimental work not merely in the Negro dialect but in
other varieties as well: Irish, once in German, but very frequently .....
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The Traits Of Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 1047 - Number of pages: 4.... have a normal amount of education, he still became the leader of Germany.
Adolf Hitler, nevertheless, was a great orator and when he spoke, everybody listened. He sometimes spoke several times a day, moving from town to town seemingly tireless. Ken McVay had this to say about this subject, “He was a tireless speaker and before he came to power would sometimes give as many as three or four speeches on the same day, often in different cites. Even his opponents concede that he is the greatest orator that Germany has ever known,”[sic](Ken McVay 1995, (Internet)). Though he didn’t ha .....
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Accomplishments Of John D. Rockefeller
Number of words: 678 - Number of pages: 3.... Andrews,and others. By 1872 Standard Oil had purchased and thus
controlled nearly all the refining firms in Cleveland, plus two refineries
in the New York City area. Before long the company was refining 29,000
barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden
barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged
in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is
estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business
in the US in the 1890s.
Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely ap .....
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